Spheres #
This file defines and proves basic results about spheres and cospherical sets of points in Euclidean affine spaces.
Main definitions #
EuclideanGeometry.Spherebundles acenterand aradius.EuclideanGeometry.Sphere.IsDiameteris the property of two points being the two endpoints of a diameter of a sphere.EuclideanGeometry.Sphere.ofDiameterconstructs the sphere on a given diameter.EuclideanGeometry.Cosphericalis the property of a set of points being equidistant from some point.EuclideanGeometry.Concyclicis the property of a set of points being cospherical and coplanar.
A set of points is cospherical if they are equidistant from some point. In two dimensions, this is the same thing as being concyclic.
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The definition of Cospherical.
A set of points is cospherical if and only if they lie in some sphere.
The set of points in a sphere is cospherical.
A subset of a cospherical set is cospherical.
The empty set is cospherical.
A single point is cospherical.
If ps is cospherical, then any of its isometric images is cospherical.
If a set of points is cospherical, then its image under the inclusion of any affine subspace containing it is cospherical.
If a set of points in an affine subspace is cospherical, then its image under the coercion to the ambient space is cospherical.
Two points are cospherical.
A set of points is concyclic if it is cospherical and coplanar. (Most results are stated
directly in terms of Cospherical instead of using Concyclic.)
- Cospherical : EuclideanGeometry.Cospherical ps
- Coplanar : _root_.Coplanar β ps
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A subset of a concyclic set is concyclic.
The empty set is concyclic.
A single point is concyclic.
Two points are concyclic.
s.IsDiameter pβ pβ says that pβ and pβ are the two endpoints of a diameter of s.
- left_mem : pβ β s
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Construct the sphere with the given diameter.
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A set of points in an affine subspace is cospherical if and only if its image in the ambient space is cospherical.
A set of points is cospherical in an affine subspace Sβ if and only if its image under the
inclusion into a larger affine subspace Sβ is cospherical.
Any three points in a cospherical set are affinely independent.
Any three points in a cospherical set are affinely independent.
The three points of a cospherical set are affinely independent.
Suppose that pβ and pβ lie in spheres sβ and sβ. Then the vector between the centers
of those spheres is orthogonal to that between pβ and pβ; this is a version of
inner_vsub_vsub_of_dist_eq_of_dist_eq for bundled spheres. (In two dimensions, this says that
the diagonals of a kite are orthogonal.)
The vector from the midpoint of a chord to the center of the sphere is orthogonal to the chord.
The distance from the center of a sphere to any point strictly between two points on the sphere is strictly less than the radius.
The distance from the center of a sphere to the midpoint of a chord with distinct endpoints is strictly less than the radius.
Two spheres intersect in at most two points in a two-dimensional subspace containing their
centers; this is a version of eq_of_dist_eq_of_dist_eq_of_mem_of_finrank_eq_two for bundled
spheres.
Two spheres intersect in at most two points in two-dimensional space; this is a version of
eq_of_dist_eq_of_dist_eq_of_finrank_eq_two for bundled spheres.
Given a point on a sphere and a point not outside it, the inner product between the difference of those points and the radius vector is positive unless the points are equal.
Given a point on a sphere and a point not outside it, the inner product between the difference of those points and the radius vector is nonnegative.
Given a point on a sphere and a point inside it, the inner product between the difference of those points and the radius vector is positive.
Given two distinct points on a sphere, the inner product of the chord with the radius vector at one endpoint is negative.
Given three collinear points, two on a sphere and one not outside it, the one not outside it is weakly between the other two points.
Given three collinear points, two on a sphere and one inside it, the one inside it is strictly between the other two points.